The European Union on March 10th extended by six months until September sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian individuals over the conflict in Ukraine, it said in a statement, cites LETA/AFP. …read more Source: The Baltic...

According to the deputy head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus, the cooperation of the neighboring country with NATO is neither critical nor provocative for Belarus. …read more Source:...

The prospect of the Liepaja Metalurgs closing its doors and hundreds of workers being laid off loomed closer Thursday the plant’s Ukrainian owners threatening a shutdown unless the government helps bail it out of financial ruin. …read more Source:...

The SummitSVT2, Mon 22:15 or SVT1, Wed 23:30Nick Ryan’s acclaimed 2012 documentary The Summit combines footage, interviews and recreations to retell the 2008 K2 disaster that claimed the lives of 11 mountaineers on the second-highest mountain on Earth. “The Summit does an amazing job of putting you on the mountain, making it one of the most...

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko on Thursday deflected questions about her chances of becoming prime minister if the government collapsed and said such speculation was fanning the flames of the country’s political crisis. …read more Source:...

State Secretary for Strategic Affairs with the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) Daniel Ionita said on Thursday in Azerbaijan that the threats from the east and the south, represented by the illegal annexation of Crimea and its impact on a regional and global level, the conflicts in North Africa and the Middle East respectively, require a coherent...

A defiant Nadia Savchenko UKRAINIAN historians may yet be grateful to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. His war against the country has given it a rallying cause. He has also provided it with a national hero, a Ukrainian Joan of Arc. She is Nadia Savchenko, a 34-year-old military pilot who served in Iraq. In July 2014 Ms Savchenko was...

EU sanctions against Russian citizens and firms were extended for six months on Thursday as the bloc sought to maintain pressure on supporters of Russian aggression in Ukraine. The sanctions affect 146 people and 37 firms — most of them Russian — that are accused of supporting Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the conflict in...